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Arts-based research integrates artistic activities within a research process. For some authors it means that the researcher uses his own artistic expression as means of enquiry, i.e. close to the sense of "artistic knowing". For others it also includes the use of art in action-oriented research, i.e. in a more "change through art" perspective.
Arts-based research integrates artistic activities within a research process. For some authors it means that the researcher uses his own artistic expression as means of enquiry, i.e. close to the sense of "artistic knowing". For others it also includes the use of art in action-oriented research, i.e. in a more "change through art" perspective.
Arts-based research is different from ''arts-based enquiry'', i.e. the study of the art produced by subjects, and '''arts-based science communication'', i.e. the use of arts to communicate scientific findings <ref>Kukkonen, T., & Cooper, A. (2017). An arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) planning framework for researchers. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice.  https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X15006249072134 </ref>.
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{{quotationbox|Art-based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies. These inquiries are distinguished from research activities where the arts may play a significant role but are essentially used as data for investigations that take place within academic disciplines that utilize more traditional scientific, verbal, and mathematic  descriptions and analyses of phenomena.}}
{{quotationbox|Art-based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies. These inquiries are distinguished from research activities where the arts may play a significant role but are essentially used as data for investigations that take place within academic disciplines that utilize more traditional scientific, verbal, and mathematic  descriptions and analyses of phenomena.}}

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Introduction

Arts-based research integrates artistic activities within a research process. For some authors it means that the researcher uses his own artistic expression as means of enquiry, i.e. close to the sense of "artistic knowing". For others it also includes the use of art in action-oriented research, i.e. in a more "change through art" perspective.

Arts-based research is different from arts-based enquiry, i.e. the study of the art produced by subjects, and 'arts-based science communication, i.e. the use of arts to communicate scientific findings [1].

Definitions


Art-based research can be defined as the systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies. These inquiries are distinguished from research activities where the arts may play a significant role but are essentially used as data for investigations that take place within academic disciplines that utilize more traditional scientific, verbal, and mathematic descriptions and analyses of phenomena.

-- Shaun McNiff, 2008 [2]


The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in the role of arts in science and the growing hybridization between the two. An illustration of this is the emergence of arts-based research practices. As Chilton (2013) remarks, there is a whole plethora of terms that refer to approaches that embrace the arts in social research. These approaches can be seen as a research continuum: from Eisner’s arts-based educational research (ABER) in the 1970s to arts-based research (ABR) adopted in the 1990s (Barone and Eisner 2012; McNiff 2008), which also represents an umbrella for other approaches like arts-informed research (Knowles and Cole 2008; CAIR 2000) and A/r/tography (Springgay et al. 2008).

-- Heras & Tàbara, 2014[3]


Art-based research is defined as the use of personal expression in various art forms as a primary mode of enquiry. These studies may accompany or include the artistic expressions of others but their unique feature is the making of art by the researcher.

-- McNiff, S., 2013 [4]

References and bibliography

Cited

  1. ↑ Kukkonen, T., & Cooper, A. (2017). An arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) planning framework for researchers. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X15006249072134
  2. ↑ McNiff S (2008) Arts-based research. In: Knowles JG, Cole AL (eds) Handbook of the arts in qualitative research: perspective, methodologies, example and issues. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, pp 83–92
  3. ↑ Heras, M. & Tàbara, J.D. (2014) Let’s play transformations! Performative methods for sustainability, Sustainability Science (2014) 9: 379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-014-0245-9
  4. ↑ McNiff, S. (2013). Introduction: A critical focus on art-based research. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 4(1), 5-12.

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